[Jack Hydrazine]

Ebola spreading rate compared to other diseases
http://sploid.gizmodo.com/ebola-spreading-rate-compared-to-other-diseases-visuali-1642364575

[Smokin' Joe]

Well, it has been my experience that theory works just fine in theory.

Now if everyone who has Ebola will kindly only infect two people, those numbers will be right.

Fomite transfers do not appear to be taken into account, and rightfully so, because the presence of Ebola Fomites in a modern urban area is unprecedented.

The problem, though, is that Ebola is compared with diseases that don't kill as many of the infected (with the exception of HIV/AIDS--which can be slowed down quite a bit with treatment, and SARS, which is rare because it was dealt with appropriately). If two people are infected with Ebola, under the best of circumstances one will die. Measles? Infect 18, and you expect them all to live.